My papers

You can find an up-to-date list of my research articles also on my Google Scholar profile. If you have trouble accessing the full-text version of any of the articles below, please get in touch. I’m happy to share a PDF of any article I authored or co-authored.

Outreach articles

  • The Next Piece of Our Big Genetic Puzzle [link]
    M Petr
    Anthropology News issue on Genetics
    (2021)

First-author publications

  • demografr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes [link]
    M Petr, IM Pötzsch, F Racimo
    bioRxiv, doi: 10.64898/2025.12.18.694482
    (2025)

  • slendr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes [link]
    M Petr, BC Haller, PL Ralph, F Racimo
    Peer Community Journal, Volume 3, article no. e121
    (2023)

  • The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes [link]
    M Petr, M Hajdinjak, Q Fu, E Essel, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur, P Semal, et al.
    Science 369 (6511), 1653-1656
    (2020)

  • admixr—R package for reproducible analyses using ADMIXTOOLS [link]
    M Petr, B Vernot, J Kelso
    Bioinformatics 35 (17), 3194-3195
    (2019)

  • Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression [link]
    M Petr, S Pääbo, J Kelso, B Vernot
    PNAS 116 (5), 1639-1644
    (2018)

Senior-author publications

  • Promises and limitations of local ancestry inference in imputed ancient genomes [link]
    K Bougiouri, EK Irving-Pease, LAF Frantz, M Petr
    bioRxiv, doi: 10.64898/2026.05.19.725905
    (2026)

Other publications

  • Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years [link]
    K Bougiouri, SG Aninta, S Charlton, AC Harris, M Petr, et al.
    PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2416980122
    (2025)

  • Elucidating the sustainability of 700 y of Inuvialuit beluga whale hunting in the Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada [link]
    M Skovrind, M Louis, SH Fergusson, DM Glazov, DI Litovka, L Losetto, IG Meschersky, MM Miller, M Petr, et al.
    PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2405993121
    (2024)

  • Exploring the effects of ecological parameters on the spatial structure of genetic tree sequences [link]
    MK Ianni-Ravn, M Petr, F Racimo
    PCI Evolutionary BIology, doi: 10.1101/2023.03.27.534388
    (2024)

  • Modeling the spatiotemporal spread of beneficial alleles using ancient genomes [link]
    RA Muktupavela, M Petr, L Ségurel, et al.
    Elife 11, e73767
    (2022)

  • Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments [link]
    B Vernot, EI Zavala, A Gómez-Olivencia, Z Jacobs, V Slon, F Mafessoni, F Romagné, A Pearson, M Petr, et al.
    Science 372 (6542), eabf1667
    (2021)

  • Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals [link]
    M Hajdinjak, Q Fu, A Hübner, M Petr, et al.
    Nature 555 (7698), 652-656
    (2018)

  • The genetic history of ice age Europe [link]
    Q Fu, C Posth, M Hajdinjak, M Petr, et al.
    Nature 534 (7606), 200-205
    (2016)